[AUSTRIA-USA] After Scotland, the USA faces Austria, another team whose best days are behind it. Austria hasn't qualified for the World Cup since 1998 and it owes its lone appearance at the European Championship in 2008 to the fact it served as co-host. That didn't prevent the Austrians from going ... Read the whole story

[AUSTRIA-USA] By just about every measure, this has been a very successful year for the U.S. national team. It won its third third Hexagonal and fifth Gold Cup title. It enters Tuesday's season finale against Austria at Vienna's Ernst-Happel-Stadion (TV: NBC Sports Network and UniMas, 2:45 pm ET) already assured ... Read the whole story

[NWSL] U.S. national team star Sydney Leroux, who grew up in the Vancouver area, is returning to the Pacific Northwest to play for the Seattle Reign FC in the biggest trade in the NWSL's young history and one of several moves Seattle plans on making in its bid to become ... Read the whole story

[WORLD CUP QUALIFYING] In the next 24 hours, all but one of the final berths at the 2014 World Cup will be decided and that will be a mere formality as Uruguay returns home with a 5-0 advantage over Jordan. No bigger team is in danger of missing out on ... Read the whole story

[WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN] What are the odds of two players being born just a day apart in the United States scoring in the same game for national teams other than the United States? That's what Giuseppe Rossi and Bright Dike did on Monday for Italy and Nigeria, respectively, in their ... Read the whole story

[VIDEO PICK: Off the Post] Players usually don't consider passing back to their goalkeeper from near the halfway line, but we're glad Frickley Athletic's Steven Gardener considered it an option. ... Read the whole story

"We beat a team that is no more than a group of buddies who were rejected because they couldn't play rugby in New Zealand well, and they had no choice but to switch to soccer." -- Mexican
legend Hugo Sanchez on New Zealand's national team, which hosts Mexico on Wednesday in the second-leg of the intercontinental World Cup play-in after falling 5-1 last week in Azteca
Stadium. (El Universal via The Sydney Morning
Journal) ...More